Donate Or Destroy - Damaged Stamps

Curious - should I donate damaged small queens to organizations, or destroy them so they don't circulate into other collections?

Damage = pulled perfs, clipped, thins

What do you do?

Chris

Send them to me, I'll pay postage.
I dislike stamps being destroyed.

Hi Chris

I would donate to someone like I had a Map Stamp donated to me with a major re-entry {but with a tear} till I got a better one.
Kindness can make some one happy.

Robert

My 2 cents ... With the intense interest by early Canada collectors in cancels, perforation, paper, plate varieties, etc., a group of damaged small queens still can be very useful as a research reference and should be preserved or passed along to serious students of the issue.

If you had asked the same question about a stack of used damaged 1950s U.S. commemoratives, then they should be trashed or funneled to your local art enthusiast for a decoupage project.

Use them for art projects! (common stamps only of course)
Don

I use them in philatelic collages that I create and insert on the outer cover pockets of the binders in which I mount my collection. Also in those collages are anything philatelic and/or postal that doesn't need to be otherwise preserved.

Here's part of the collage I created for the binder cover of the album that holds my Czech stamps. The whole collage is too big for my printer scanner. The actual stamps in it were all damaged.
BTW, the artist Mucha designed the first Czechoslovak stamps and what you see here is from the leaflets I got when I visited his museum in Prague.
Fun!?

Destroy

It depends on the stamp. Here are two examples of damaged stamps that do have value.

2c Large Queen on Laid Paper. Only three copies recorded.



A little over $100 investment including Certification. Sold for Canadian $247,250. All three copies of this very rare stamp have defects.

3c Small Queen perforated 12.5. Bought for 15-cents. Appraised at $200 many years ago. Lowest listed catalogue value Canadian $900.00. This stamp has internal cut caused by the cancelation.




One needs to be aware of what one has and identify it properly. A damaged stamp does not always mean it has no value. Most are not worth bothering with but make sure you identify the stamp properly before tossing it in the trash.

Mike

Mike..Were there tears in your eyes when it was sold..I would cry..Just saying.

Robert

You can dry your tears with hundred dollar bills.
Don

haha..Good one Don

Robert

You can dry more than tears...….

There were no tears. I was happy to have found the #32, and I made a great profit on it.

Mike

Mike
Do we know if any others have be found..??

Robert

I believe I said this previously...only three copies recorded. If any others have been found I don't know about them. That is the #32 only. There are quite a few 3c Small Queen perf 12.5 Indian Red.

Mike